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Open-sourced Technology Levels the Playing Field Between Tech Giants and Startups

CTOvision

The contest between proprietary technology and open source has been ongoing for a decade.Today, some of the most premium technology is open-sourced and free. Even Google's highly prized Borg software is becoming open-sourced. Government push for open source software.

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Alluxio: A virtual distributed storage system orders of magnitude faster than others

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Alluxio is a memory speed virtual distributed storage system. Open source software is critical to the modern enterprise software landscape. Alluxio is open source under the Apache license, and we are committed to maintaining this model.

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Google’s VR painting app is getting the axe, but it will live on as an open-source project

The Verge

Google is ending development on the virtual reality painting app Tilt Brush — one of the most well-known VR applications — and making it open source. Tilt Brush’s code can be accessed on GitHub now , but Google says some features had to be removed from the open-source release because of licensing restrictions.

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Microsoft’s resurgence: Reflecting on Satya Nadella’s leadership, a decade after he became CEO

GeekWire

This shift also marked a departure from the traditional model of selling software licenses toward a subscription revenue model that is now deeply ingrained across the entire consumer and enterprise technology ecosystem. Satya wasn’t afraid to steer the company in a new direction. Now, Apple has joined the pursuit.

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Technology Short Take 114

Scott Lowe

The CNCF blog has a great article written by an Alibaba software engineer (Xingyu Chen) on some performance optimizations for etcd that have been contributed back to the open source community. These look interesting, but be aware that they are not licensed with an open source license. Virtualization.

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NGA Continues To Engage With Open Source Community Via GitHub

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They are: geoevents: The GeoEvents project is a dynamic and customizable open source web presence that provides a common operational picture to consolidate activities, manage content, and provides a single point of discovery. The main GitHub page for NGA is at: National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. In the News.

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Innovative eBook DRM Solutions for Modern Publishers

Kitaboo

With KITABOO, you can create a virtual environment to store and share all your eBooks and digital files. Readium DRM Readium, an open-source DRM, offers a comprehensive solution for digital rights management in the context of e-books and digital publications.

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